The Paralympic Video games ended with a spectacular gentle present and dance on the ultimate day of competitors, with two world data damaged.
Talking on the closing ceremony at a packed Stade de France, former canoe gold medalist Tony Estanguet, chief organizer of Paris 2024, mentioned the six-week Paralympic and Olympic Video games can be “engraved on in individuals’s recollections”.
“This summer season, France has a date with historical past, and the nation seems,” he mentioned.
On the closing ceremony, greater than 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic delegations braved the rain to take part in probably the most thrilling French digital dance music.
Beforehand, Moroccan runner Fatima Ezala Idrisi broke the marathon world document for visually impaired ladies.
El Idrissi accomplished the 42-kilometer (26.2-mile) race in 2 hours, 48 minutes and 36 seconds, beating the earlier document by practically 6 minutes.
“I am not operating for a run, only for a medal,” mentioned the 29-year-old Moroccan.
Additionally on the final day of competitors, Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemia broke her personal world document for ladies’s para-weightlifting.
China tops the Paralympic medal listing with 94 gold medals, Britain is second with 49 gold medals and the USA is third with 36 gold medals.
Ukrainian athletes overcame big obstacles posed by the nation’s warfare towards the Russian invading forces to complete seventh with 22 gold medals, whereas France ranked eighth with 19 gold medals.
China has topped the medal desk at each Paralympic Video games because the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The following Paralympic Video games will probably be held in Los Angeles in 2028.
Regardless of preliminary considerations about ticket gross sales, the Paralympics befell in most stadiums, constructing on the feel-good success of the Video games, which concluded on August 11.
Parsons mentioned the Paris Paralympics confirmed that “change begins with sport”.
